"An Enormous Loss": Bill McKibben on Death of Leading Environmentalist Rebecca Tarbotton
January 2, 2013
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as posted by the channelDemocracyNow.org - We remember Rebecca Tarbotton, leading environmentalist and executive director of Rainforest Action Network, who has died at age 39. Tarbotton passed away after a swimming accident in Mexico while on vacation. She was RAN's first female executive director, and appeared on Democracy Now! in May to talk about its campaign against Bank of America, which is the lead financier of mountaintop-removal coal mining. We ask environmentalist Bill McKibben to share his reflections on the work of Tarbotton, his friend. "Becky was one of the was one of the very first people involved in this tar sands campaign," says McKibben of the movement to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. "We have no surplus of feisty, smart, wonderful, young environmental leaders."
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